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ECM @ Winter Jazzfest 2016

by Tyran Grillo
January 25, 2016

ECM @ Winter Jazzfest ECM Records Stage The New School, Tishman Auditorium New Yor, NY January 15 & 16, 2016 New York City's 2016 Winter Jazzfest Marathon capped off a string of first-week performances. The running theme of the festival was transition, as musicians of all walks ...

Article: Live Review

Winter Jazzfest 2016: ECM Records Stage

by Bob Kenselaar
January 25, 2016

Winter Jazzfest--ECM Records Stage The New School Tishman Auditorium New York, NY January 15 & 16, 2016 There's a very modern feel at the Tishman Auditorium at The New School University Center, the site for a two-night showcase for ECM Records at the 2016 Winter Jazzfest--with the Escher-esque stairs that ...

Article: Live Review

NYC Winter Jazzfest 2016

by Dan Bilawsky
January 19, 2016

NYC Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 13-17, 2016 If you make the rounds in New York City on any night of the week, during any week of the year, there's always an abundance of quality jazz to hear. But when NYC Winter Jazzfest takes hold, the cup truly runneth over. This massive ...

Article: Album Review

David Gilmore: Energies of Change

Read "Energies of Change" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
January 9, 2016

David Gilmore's career started off with a bang. He worked with Steve Coleman through the 1990s, appearing on at least nine recordings either led, or instigated, by the renowned saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and recent MacArthur Award recipient. Since emerging from Coleman's M-BASE fold, Gilmore has worked with a stunning variety of artists both inside and outside ...

Article: Year in Review

Nenad Georgievski's Best of 2015

by Nenad Georgievski
January 5, 2016

2015 was not an easy year. I became a dad for the third time while I was working on a Film festival for music documentaries. The festival itself was an uphill battle, but I managed to get it organized with astounding success. In the meantime I was writing constantly or was listening to music, as if ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Howard Riley: Reinventing the Jazz Piano Trio

by Duncan Heining
January 3, 2016

Even allowing for journalistic hyperbole, the phrase “reinventing the jazz piano trio" was a doozy. It all seemed a bit “Emperor's new clothes" or, as my late mother used to put it, “new coat and no knickers." For a time in the noughties, British critics variously applied the phrase to Esbjorn Svensson, Brad Mehldau, The Necks, ...

Article: Year in Review

Top 12 "Read" Album Reviews: 2015

by Michael Ricci
December 31, 2015

All About Jazz tracks how often an album review is read, and the reviews listed below represent our top twelve published in 2015. East River PLS.trio by Karl Ackermann Published: February 22, 2015 The Thompson Fields Maria Schneider Orchestra by Dan Bilawsky ...

Album

Break Stuff

By Vijay Iyer

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Starlings; Chorale; Diptych; Hood; Work; Taking Flight; Blood Count; Break Stuff; Mystery Woman; Geese; Countdown; Wrens.

Article: Year in Review

Hrayr Attarian's Best Releases of 2015

by Hrayr Attarian
December 21, 2015

The year 2015 was truly an exciting one for jazz as it saw many superb releases. If I had, however, the proverbial gun to the head to just choose just one it would be Rudresh Mahanthappa's Bird Calls (ACT, 2015). Nevertheless, the cream of the crop of the year is listed below in five triads. The ...

Article: Lyrics

I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Enrico Zanisi

by Vincenzo Roggero
November 19, 2015

01. Vijay Iyer -Mutations (ECM -2014). Disco molto bello e interessante che vede uno dei miei pianisti preferiti alle prese con un quartetto d'archi (da lui stesso arrangiato) con la sapiente aggiunta di un po' di elettronica in alcuni brani. 02. Claude Debussy -Jeux, Images, Musiques pour Le Roi Lear. City of ...